PP&D 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Georg Simmel, Individualism

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Planning, Policy, and Design
• Course: PP&D 4
• Professor: Walter Nicholls

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Urban life as world of contradictions opposites: the blas and instrumental urbanite. The blas attitude (georg simmel): difference breeds indifference: free urbanite free city b. i. Spatial structure: the city of concentric circles: a spatial structure a. i. Argument: the city is made up of concentric circles and the center is the site of locational advantage such as a port or transport hub. a. i. 2. Increases the value of the properties associated with the center areas a. ii. Warehouses that service the core economic areas of the city (business) a. ii. 1. a. The zones immediately outside would be infrastructure (warehouses) a. iii. Residential districts (middle class, natives: urban succession: disturbance, invasion, equilibrium b. i. Immigration is disturbed (in terms of transportation) b. iii.